But in a strongly worded statement earlier this summer, MPAA president Jack Valenti made it clear where he stood: "(2600 publisher Eric Corley) is transporting individuals electronically to locations in order to facilitate the illegal copying of DVDs. His behavior is analogous to driving someone to a home so that they may burglarize the home."
ok, real quick.
Q: how can burglary of a house be related to copyright infringement?
(hint: different categories of crimes)
A: they can't!
why is this statement even considered as an adequate analogy. it's more like its copyright infringement if you drive your friend to the store to get blank cd's to copy some albums on cd. now that doesn't sound so evil and wrong now does it?
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You can install a little proggie called "Critical Update Notifier" that runs in your system tray and alerts you as soon as some remotely significant bug gets posted to that site. Pretty darn neat, and even better than getting an email.
another process sucking waste. it notifies you about 'critical' updates that are rarely critical. plus as i said it sucks away cpu cycles and wastes bandwidth that i could be getting porn on.;)
and it's just an example but the mandrake update is right there to just click once every few days when you feel like installing updates. i mean who wants to be bugged about a critical update that will need another critical update in 2 or 3 days to fix what the previous broke.(i think that made sense)
and all i wanted to do was check my mail really quick and get off line but it says critical so i should waste 4 hours of my life to get it when i really didn't want to, but i have no idea how this derned computer works so i better or it'll blow up on me.
manual and wanted updates are the only way to go. what if i get an update that breaks someting critical to me at the worst possible time? i want a real fix. and i want to be able to unbreak what the 'fix' broke. but with windows it's sorry gotta reinstall and work your way back up. i like modular. and when i can pull it out and put the old right back without any trouble. that's why i for one can't wait till qnx is free. (it may be already i just couldn't find it on their site)
windows: man i have to reboot everytime i change any network settings.
Errr... no, it doesn't e-mail you, but Win/98 has a big ol' "Windows Update" function right on the start menu. Click it, and it tells you when you have important updates to install (particularly security updates). It also lets you download new features. Click the button and boom! Instant update.
And I haven't checked it out, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did have a mailing list to tell you when important updates are available.
first off that is if the active x controls on the site don't crash your ie (yes active x on microsoft's web site crashes their browser). and the update is far from instant. plus the fact that the updates have updates within days i've seen. if you want to get into an argument about how ms update works i'd be glad to go at it. tech support puts fod on my table. i know the ins and outs of windows 3.x, 95a, 95b(osr2), 98, 98se, and most of NT. hell dun has several bugs follow it since 1.1 and they are on 1.3... hrm...
and sorry unless you pay them big buck$ you are'nt getting anything like that. and i bet you'd pay out the a$$ for it if they did have it. and btw, check out mandrake's updater. nicer and cleaner than the slow hardto use activex windows update page. so if single click goto updates is ready then mandrake is well beyond ready. since it's defaulted onto the desktop not even hidden in the start menu.
and it's not just click and get it. not are all the features good. installing ie 5.0 on a machine totally screwed it up from that page. i had to go and reinstall windows to get the machine to run again. and you can bet it wasn't my machine that needed that.
No Linux distribution that doesn't come configured to automatically check for, notify users of, and help users install software updates should be considered "ready for the desktop".
then i guess no operating system is ready for the desktop. hrmm... does ms mail every windows user (reistered of course) when an update comes out? not quite. updates are the user's responsibility. why should everyone work double for the lazy ppl?
think of the fun ppl could have writing an email virus that made the person feel like they were getting flipped over and over, round and round. have it automatically start when a game starts using it. now wouldn't that be neat. -- dead angel i am strange people. -me
some of us/. geeks are tech support folk at a 'rival' isp. although i don't consider aol to be a rival of the one i work for. we do lose between 2 and 5 new users a week cause they can't handle the internet. they can't even figure out the world wide web. and i don't know how many computers i've had to fix because of aol software. and 1 that has been permanantly disabled, and i mean permanently, by aol software (before 5.0 btw).
so we should be up in arms cause it makes my life (yes i'm selfish) a fscking hell!
ok guys it's not tonight. at least not here. it's on november 18th. heh. i feel like a dog trainer placing your noses in your own sh*t.:-) nothing mean. just pointing it out.
check the facts, and do not trust the looneys that try and get their news posted.
but i'm glad i was posted or i wouldn't have known. i mean it's not every day i get to see pretty lights flash in the sky without help.
>Yes, GUI can be part of the operating system. Look at the Mac.
umm no... you can remove and/or replace the gui on a mac. given it's not too useful or even worth it, but you can get rid of it and the computer will run.
don't mean to nit pick, but someone has to do it...
just for informational porposes eudora uses the ie engine is is not operable without it (eudora for windows 98). if you put that into place then you have only your netscape. but many clients do their own html rendering. and activex is so unused it's not even funny. ms uses it and that's about it. funny how they keep a spec that is basically defunct around.
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But in a strongly worded statement earlier this summer, MPAA president Jack Valenti made it clear where he stood: "(2600 publisher Eric Corley) is transporting individuals electronically to locations in order to facilitate the illegal copying of DVDs. His behavior is analogous to driving someone to a home so that they may burglarize the home."
ok, real quick. Q: how can burglary of a house be related to copyright infringement?
(hint: different categories of crimes)
A: they can't!
why is this statement even considered as an adequate analogy. it's more like its copyright infringement if you drive your friend to the store to get blank cd's to copy some albums on cd. now that doesn't sound so evil and wrong now does it?
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
You can install a little proggie called "Critical Update Notifier" that runs in your system tray and alerts you as soon as some remotely significant
;)
bug gets posted to that site. Pretty darn neat, and even better than getting an email.
another process sucking waste. it notifies you about 'critical' updates that are rarely critical. plus as i said it sucks away cpu cycles and wastes bandwidth that i could be getting porn on.
and it's just an example but the mandrake update is right there to just click once every few days when you feel like installing updates. i mean who wants to be bugged about a critical update that will need another critical update in 2 or 3 days to fix what the previous broke.(i think that made sense)
and all i wanted to do was check my mail really quick and get off line but it says critical so i should waste 4 hours of my life to get it when i really didn't want to, but i have no idea how this derned computer works so i better or it'll blow up on me.
manual and wanted updates are the only way to go. what if i get an update that breaks someting critical to me at the worst possible time? i want a real fix. and i want to be able to unbreak what the 'fix' broke. but with windows it's sorry gotta reinstall and work your way back up. i like modular. and when i can pull it out and put the old right back without any trouble. that's why i for one can't wait till qnx is free. (it may be already i just couldn't find it on their site)
windows: man i have to reboot everytime i change any network settings.
linux: reboot for network?
qnx: what's a reboot?
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
Errr... no, it doesn't e-mail you, but Win/98 has a big ol' "Windows Update" function right on the start menu. Click it, and it tells you when you have important updates to install (particularly security updates). It also lets you download new features. Click the button and boom! Instant update.
And I haven't checked it out, but I wouldn't be surprised if they did have a mailing list to tell you when important updates are available.
first off that is if the active x controls on the site don't crash your ie (yes active x on microsoft's web site crashes their browser). and the update is far from instant. plus the fact that the updates have updates within days i've seen. if you want to get into an argument about how ms update works i'd be glad to go at it. tech support puts fod on my table. i know the ins and outs of windows 3.x, 95a, 95b(osr2), 98, 98se, and most of NT. hell dun has several bugs follow it since 1.1 and they are on 1.3... hrm...
and sorry unless you pay them big buck$ you are'nt getting anything like that. and i bet you'd pay out the a$$ for it if they did have it. and btw, check out mandrake's updater. nicer and cleaner than the slow hardto use activex windows update page. so if single click goto updates is ready then mandrake is well beyond ready. since it's defaulted onto the desktop not even hidden in the start menu.
and it's not just click and get it. not are all the features good. installing ie 5.0 on a machine totally screwed it up from that page. i had to go and reinstall windows to get the machine to run again. and you can bet it wasn't my machine that needed that.
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
No Linux distribution that doesn't come configured to automatically check for, notify users of, and help users install software updates should be considered "ready for the desktop".
then i guess no operating system is ready for the desktop. hrmm... does ms mail every windows user (reistered of course) when an update comes out? not quite. updates are the user's responsibility. why should everyone work double for the lazy ppl?
just a thought.
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
think of the fun ppl could have writing an email virus that made the person feel like they were getting flipped over and over, round and round. have it automatically start when a game starts using it. now wouldn't that be neat.
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
sick man. just sick.
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
some of us /. geeks are tech support folk at a 'rival' isp. although i don't consider aol to be a rival of the one i work for. we do lose between 2 and 5 new users a week cause they can't handle the internet. they can't even figure out the world wide web. and i don't know how many computers i've had to fix because of aol software. and 1 that has been permanantly disabled, and i mean permanently, by aol software (before 5.0 btw).
so we should be up in arms cause it makes my life (yes i'm selfish) a fscking hell!
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
from pittsburgh it was beautiful :)
i love full moons let alone eclipses of it
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dead angel
i am strange people. -me
ok guys it's not tonight. at least not here. it's on november 18th. heh. i feel like a dog trainer placing your noses in your own sh*t. :-) nothing mean. just pointing it out.
check the facts, and do not trust the looneys that try and get their news posted.
but i'm glad i was posted or i wouldn't have known. i mean it's not every day i get to see pretty lights flash in the sky without help.
dead angel
veni, vidi, fece
>Yes, GUI can be part of the operating system. Look at the Mac.
umm no... you can remove and/or replace the gui on a mac. given it's not too useful or even worth it, but you can get rid of it and the computer will run.
don't mean to nit pick, but someone has to do it...
dead angel
'i am strange people'
just for informational porposes eudora uses the ie engine is is not operable without it (eudora for windows 98). if you put that into place then you have only your netscape. but many clients do their own html rendering. and activex is so unused it's not even funny. ms uses it and that's about it. funny how they keep a spec that is basically defunct around.
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activex = security >